Discerning a true Guru

2009-09-23

DAILY READINGS

From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji

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[Pictured: Adi Shankaracharya, the father of Vedanta]

If you look at his [Sri Ramakrishna's] photograph there are no glorious garlands around his neck. Nowadays gurus are getting on a horse and taking a sword and saying, 'I am Kalki avatar' – and the silly devotees are even buying such photographs. Some people are even dressing up like Sri Krishna and carrying a flute. These are all fake things. If you are a real guru you do not have to dress up in fancy dress because when your disciples look at you they can actually see if you are Kartika or Hanumanji or Kali or Durga.

What did Arjuna see when that young Brahmin boy came to them by the sea? He saw him as Sri Krishna. And what did Hanumanji see? He saw him as Sri Rama. You do not have to have fancy dress to go and show what you are. Master never believed in fancy dress. Simple as simple could be, He was naked, just like nature itself. That was Sri Ramakrishna.

He did not want anyone to preach about him. But we are forced to preach about him. If you follow him, if you follow his teachings, you will only have to do one thing: die. You [the ego] will have to die completely. Then only he lives in you. Otherwise it is too difficult.

If you have not felt the power of Master's Name it is because you are just treating it as something ordinary. You do not know the power of it. The power is so great that it will increase love for your own Deity [Ishta Deva] and it will increase love for all religions. That is the power of this Name. At the same time it will give the moksha [liberation] fo all the scriptures as promised. It will give you the moksha of the Christian Bible, it will give you the moksha of the Koran. Even more he will give his own abode: Ramakrishnadham. [the place or realm of Sri Ramakrishna] That is the crux of the whole thing: Master's Name.

Master's Name does not only take you to Vishnuloka [the realm or place of Vishnu] or Shivaloka or Shaktiloka. Nay. It takes you to all the lokas and yet it withdraws and shows you: 'Look, all the lokas I am.' That is why you find all the deities being absorbed in Him.

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Care should be taken by the reader to understand and take Swamiji's
words in these postings, in context. Every teaching or instruction that
he gave was specific to the people who were with Swamiji at the time.
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Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Nischalananda Puri, Swami Shivapadananda

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Swami Shivapadananda with additional meditation instructions
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While you are meditating images of other deities will come into your mind. If you are meditating on Sri Ramakrishna, Lord Shiva’s image or Mother Kali’s form may come into your mind. Do not push this image away. Our gurus say, ‘Look at it for a little while. Then take it and merge it into your Deity [Ishta Deva] proper.’

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Swami Vivekananda [the lead disciple of Sri Ramakrishna] used to put it very beautifully. He said, ‘Even dogs are higher [more discerning]. If you dress up in any kind of disguise, [whether] Father Christmas or a clown or anything else, the dog will look at you, sniff and bark. What happens? Your own house members may say ‘Who is this fellow who’s come? What do you want?’ So family may not make you out [identify you] in other dressing [a disguise]. But a dog identifies his master in any outfit.

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